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That source (a blog post by Ilya Grigorik) is not only more informative, but a significant portion of this article seems to have been plagarized from it. While this AlertFox article does link to Grigorik's post, it copies significant parts without proper attribution. The second paragraph even replicates one of Grigorik's article headings, "SPDY in the wild".

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Hi... me here: At no point it was my intention to claim ownership of this discovery. I simply wanted to share it with our users. I thought (and still think) quoting the author in the first line of the article makes the original source very clear: "I was googling for some Google Chrome documentation today, and discovered a fascinating post by Ilya Grigorik: ". Will now set the Ilya's text in cursive to make it 100% clear.

If claiming ownership is not your intention, you should make it clear by using blockquotes or otherwise setting the quoted text apart from your own observations.

I find it difficult to give you the benefit of the doubt when it looks like you have used text from other sources in the past without giving any attribution at all.

http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/myth-by-reporting-infrastru... seems to use text from a HP whitepaper on infrastructure monitoring from 2008, "Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction".

http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/www-or-no-www-is-not-same.h... seems to have some of the same text at http://www.awebguy.com/2011/02/seo-tip-www-or-no-www/

He's made it clear that all the text is a quote now, which means this is pretty much a duplicate of the (months old) original.

There's no original content here at all - flagged...

Yeah when I saw this, it didn't really strike me as "news" considering news is really well just that, and this is months old...

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